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No. 31
Copy to:- F. 0. No. 24
Sir,
H.B.M.Consulate General,
CANTON.
March 8th, 1927.
91
In a despatch to the Colonial Office
of the 27th February, Sir Cecil Clementi, the
Governor of Hongkong, has made a lengthy attack
on the recent policy and management of the Foreign
office in regard to China and incidentally on
myself, as tuo representative of the Foreign office
in Canton.
2.
The criticisms aimed at my own work
during the difficult period in September of last
year have already been made once by his Excellency
in despatches written at the time, but i thon
suffered them in silence as being perhaps a hasty
opinion written in the heat of the moment.
however, they are now repeated in a document,
AB,
which purports to be a comprehensive account of
recent events and may be taken for an authoritative
record, I do not feel disposed to pans again
without comment the implied strictures on my
conduct during the period under review. I will
not presume to make answer for the Foreign office
but I offer the following romarka on the part
that concerns myself.
3.
The burden of the Governor's complaint
ils Majesty's Minister,
PEKING.
ia that